What Do We Lose When Birthrates Collapse?
WSJ Published on: Dec 09, 2025 10:31 am IST The tragedy isn’t merely national decline, strained pensions or a shrinking labor force. It is the intimate, human loss, writes Bethany Mandel. Economic charts can tell us birthrates are collapsing, but they can’t tell us what that actually feels like. I was recently in Greece with…